"..America will be destroyed economically by a series of natural disasters."

According to NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have been ten major disasters so far this year in the United States.  These enormous disasters have been responsible for 700 dead and more than 35 billion in property damage.  See here. 

It was Therese Neumann, German stigmatist and mystic, who prophesied that "..America will be destroyed economically by a series of natural disasters."  In fact, Our Lord told the mystic that, "I have warned them and have postponed, as I did with Sodom, but Sodom would not listen to Me, nor do the people listen to Me nowadays, nor heed My warnings; therefore they will incur the sad experience of My wrath which they deserve."

Hitler knew of Neuman's mystical gifts and both hated and feared her.  Today, in an age crippled by secular humanism, most people simply laugh at the idea of chastisement*,  just as the people of Noah's time laughed, mocking him and his family as they built an ark in preparation for the flood waters.

Increasingly, Americans are coming to reject God's plan for marriage and family life. As a result, America is placing itself under judgement. Our Lady told Fr. Stephano Gobbi on November 15, 1990, at Malvern Pennsylvania: "I announce to you that the hour of the great trial is on the point of arriving. The great trial has arrived for your country. How many times, as a concerned and sorrowing mother, have I endeavored to urge my children to follow the path of conversion and of return to the Lord. I have not been listened to. You have continued to walk along the way of rejection of God, and of His law of love. Sins of impurity have become ever more widespread, and immorality has spread like a sea which has submerged all things. Homosexuality, a sin of impurity which is against nature, has been justified; recourse to the means of preventing life have become commonplace, while abortions - these killings of innocent children, that cry for vengeance before the face of God - have spread and are performed in every part of your homeland.The moment of divine justice and of great mercy has now arrived.

You will know the hour of weakness and of poverty; the hour of suffering and defeat; the purifying hour of the great chastisement. The great trial has arrived for your Church. How great is your responsibility, O Pastors of the Holy Church of God! You continue along the path of division from the Pope and of the rejection of his Magisterium; indeed, in a hidden way, there is in preparation a true schism which could soon become open and proclaimed...And then, there will remain only a small faithful remnant, over which I will keep watch in the garden of my Immaculate Heart.

The great trial has arrived for all humanity. The chastisement, predicted by me at Fatima and contained in that part of the secret which has not yet been revealed, is about to take place. The great moment of divine justice and of mercy has come upon the world."

*  Here's why they shouldn't.

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As the chastisement approaches...

Our Lady once told Saint Dominic that the Rosary and the scapular would one day save the world.  And that day is fast-approaching.  On October 7, 1983, Our Lady said, "Beloved sons, in the battle in which you are daily engaged against Satan and his crafty and dangerous seductions, and against the might armies of evil, apart from the special help given you by the angels of the Lord, it is necessary for you to employ a weapon which is both secure and invincible.  This weapon is your prayer....Prayer possesses a potent force and starts a chain reaction in good that is far more powerful than any atomic reaction....The prayer of my predilection is the holy rosary.  For this reason, in my apparitions I always ask that it be recited.." (To Father Stephano Gobbi, Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests, message 275).

We are now on the verge of a calamity few can imagine.  A chastisement approaches.  One which will devastate much of humanity.  It has been foretold.  Our Lady has warned us repeatedly but most refuse to listen.  Or their hearts have been hardened by sin and they are incapable of listening.  One such confused soul left a comment at this Blog calling me "insane."  The same was said to Noah in his time.  He too was called "crazy."  But the warnings from Our Lady must not be ignored.  Too much is at stake. 

As the chastisement approaches, let us not succumb to fear but rather let us have recourse to the power of the Rosary.  The Rosary is powerful not only because prayerfully meditating upon the mysteries of Our Lord's life can change us in ways we cannot even begin to imagine, but most especially because the Virgin Mother of God makes the Rosary her prayer and prays with us.

Every time we pray, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.." the Mother of God accedes to our request and joins her prayers to ours thereby making the Rosary so very powerful.  Again, it was to Fr. Gobbi that Our Lady explained, "You ask me to pray for you fifty times.  I hear your prayer and pray with you.  And so your prayer becomes all powerful, for my Son will deny me nothing."

Forget the scoffers. For such are "...like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant [and] will be destroyed in the same destruction....These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the nether gloom of darkness has been reserved.  For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.  They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved." (2 Peter 2: 12; 17-19).

 Our first Pope warned of these scoffers who would come (2 Peter 3: 3-10) and warned of a fire to come by which "the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up."

In Noah's time, the place of refuge was the Ark.  Today, Our Lady is the New Ark.  And by the prayerful recitation of the Holy Rosary, we enter that Ark and find refuge.

The time is short.  So too is the time for scoffing.  Soon those who mock God will find themselves in a sea of fire.  And without anywhere to turn.  For they have rejected Our Lord and His Law of Love. And they have refused to approach their Heavenly Mother who calls to them day and night to return home.